You’d think the 11-time Grammy Award-winning artist would be used to playing impressive venues filled with adoring fans, but the American singer seems genuinely over-awed to be here.
Brandi Carlile performs onstage during her “The Lost Time Tour” at The Royal Albert Hall. (Photo by Gus Stewart/Redferns)
Gladly, her nerves are not in the least bit audible as Carlile leads her six-piece band – featuring guitarist/bassist twins Phil and Tim Hanseroth, the SistaStrings duo Chauntee and Monique Ross on violin and cello, alongside drums and piano – through a rousing set of songs from across her 20-year career, criss-crossing country, rock, folk and pop.
Her lyrics tend to fall back on soppy cliché (“Because even when I was flat broke/You made me feel like a million bucks,” she sings here), but she gets away with it by keeping things musically interesting, crunching the previously pared-back song up into an urgent rock number.
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In recent years, Carlile has been credited for her role in bringing Joni Mitchell back to the stage, leading “Joni Jam” performances in the US.
Carlile is rightly celebrated as an activist, admired for being one of very few out queer people in country music and for her work campaigning for humanitarian issues.
But, bar a smattering of fist pumps from the crowd every time her lyrics refer to continuing “the fight”, tonight is not a political show. When you have a repertoire this engrossing, you can let the music speak for itself.
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